valiant - Story 161615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room was thick with anticipation. It seemed to thicken even more as Ben took the stage. His mother looked at him with such love, it felt like a spotlight on his chest. It was time. He was ready.

He straightened his tie, took a deep breath, and began. He spoke of his mother’s resilience, her ability to face adversity with a smile. He talked about her kindness, her generosity, the way she always put others first. As he spoke, a sense of boundless strength flooded his veins.

He ignored the nervous tremors that threatened to undermine him. He kept going. He described her quick wit and her ability to make anyone laugh. He made sure to speak of her strength, her deep and abiding love. He was the sword she had always been the shield for, and now, it was his turn to fight.

Emotion: valiant

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 2.82 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 2.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion valiant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 valiant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the valiant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the valiant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.887
`willing`	0.543
`la`	0.452
`/`	0.444
`👊`	0.439

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.661
`마다`	-0.518
`😞`	-0.488
`😔`	-0.461
`😩`	-0.444